Microsoft's newest on-premises RDBMS release seeks to galvanize the Intelligent Data Platform, bring on-prem software and cloud services together ...

Striim’s solution for SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric is crucial for replicating a majority of SQL Server enterprise data that predominantly is on-premise today, to take advantage of Microsoft ...

Azure Synapse Link for SQL: Previously, moving data from on-premises databases, like SQL Server, to Synapse required using extract, transform, and load (ETL). Configuring and running an ETL pipeline ...

"Think of the database on premises as the tip of the iceberg," Rangarajan suggests, "so the frequently updated hot data remains in SQL Server on-premise and the 'SQL in the cloud' which is ...

As Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 approaches the end of mainstream support from the company, creating a hackers’ target par excellence, is the image of cloud services as `disruptive technology’ ...

The general availability of SQL Server 2017 for Windows and Linux is among the announcements made by Microsoft at its Ignite conference in Orlando. SQL Server 2017 is the first cross-platform ...

Microsoft hikes prices for on-premises server products, with increases up to 20% on CAL suites and 10% on standalone servers.

SQL Server™ code-named “Katmai,” the next release of Microsoft® SQL Server, will help companies access and manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for mission-critical applications, increase their ...

For fans of emoji, this update also brings support for the popular emoticons to Outlook on the web. Pushing Exchange 2016 shows the commitment Microsoft still has to its on-premises server products.

Ironically, Azure is the key to improving the server software. "It's only because of the cloud that we're able to speed up the on-premise world," he points out.